COMMERCIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 11

COMMERCIAL

TALLOW AND HEMP.

| The Department of Agriculture hit! i received the '• following'" cablegram, dated June 13, from the -High Commissioner for New Zealand, London:— Tallow.—Spot market remains depressed. Nominal quotations are lower. Moderate business has -been done in shipments. .1

Hemp.—Manila: Market quiet, with firmer undertone. "K" grade quoted buyers August-October shipment at £20 10s. Stocks in London at June 1, 12,535 bales, against 13,245 bales at same time last year. Sisal: Market firm and active. July-September shipment sold at £27 10s; August-October and October-December shipments at £27 12s 6d. New Zealand: Nothing to report. Stocks in London at June 1, 80 tons, against 24 tons same time last year. FRUIT IN LONDON. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated June 13, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London:— Fruit.—Port Sydney shipment to Glasgow in forward condition. Mahana, Maimoa, and Rangitane shipments at London in good condition.' Market weaker. . ' r. i:

Apples.—Cox's Orange, 12s, to 15s; Granny Smith, lis to 13s;I)ougherty, 8s to 9s 6d; - Sturmer, 7s to 8s 6d; Jonathan, Delicious, Statesman, and Ballarat, 6s to 8s; Stark, Desert Gold, Dunn's Favourite, Lord ' : Wolseley, Pioneer, and London Pippin, 6s to 7s. Pears: Winter Cole and Winter Nelis, 10s to 12s 6d. THE SYDNEY SALES. Wool offered in Sydney today for th« first sale of thef eighth series was fixed # at 10,389 bales. For. tomorrow, 9968 bales. •MINING RETURNS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Goldfields Dredging return: 38oa ldwt. Okarito: 13oz 3dwt forl2Bhoors, SHARE MARKET WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE,

Noonday sales on 'Change:—Bank of New South Wales, £32 (5 shares); Woolworths, N.Z„ Ltd.,- £9 5s (25 shares); Electrolytic Zinc, ordinary, 38s (100 shares). ■ Unofficial list:—National Tobacco, 66s (50 shares). (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Sales: Mataki, Is sd; Conktlidated Brick, 10s 3d; Holden's Motors (pref.), 23s 3d; Dominion Breweries, 265; Electrolytic Zinc, 38s 3d; Bank of New Zealand, 445; Bank of New Zealand (D mortgage), 28s 9d; Broken Hill Pty., 72s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £32 7s 6d; Colonial Sugar, £1 17s 6d. , Devonport Steam, 21s 9d; Dominion Breweries, 26s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 72s 6d; Broken Hill Proprietary (con.); 50s 8d; Farmers' Trading, 20s 3d; New Zealand Newspapers, 425; Mount Morgan; 15s 8d: Unlisted: Selfridges (old issue), 25s 6d, (new issue) 25s 4d. CHRISTCHURCH, This' Day. Sales:—Commercial Bank , of Australia, 19s 2d (4); British Tobacco (cum div.), 41s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 73s 2d, 73s Id, 73s 2d; Broken Hill Proprietary (cont.), 50s 3d;' Consolidated Brick, 10s; Dunlop Rubber, 17s'9d (3); Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 40s 9d; Hume Pipe (Aust.), 20s 6d; New Zealand Farmers' Co-op. (10s paid), Is 6d; Taupo Totara Timber, 10s (2); Brian Boru, 4d (3); Mount Morgan, 15s 7d, 15s 7|d, 15s Bd. Reported sales: National Insurance, 18s 3<j. Unlisted: Selfridge's (Australasia, new), 25s 3d.

DUNEDIN, This Day. Sales reported:—Standard Insurance, £3 3s; South Otago Freezing Works, £7 15s; Broken Hill Proprietary, £2 10s; Woolwoiths (Sydney), £5 Electrolytic Zinc (ord.)* £1 18s.

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE. (By Telegraph.--Press .Assn. —Copyright.) (Received June 15, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange include:—Bonds, 4 .per cent. (1941), £101; Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, £20; Bank of New South Wales, £32 17s 6d; Toohey's Brewery, 31s 6d; Associated News, 22s 3d; British Tobacco, 41s 3d; Broken Hill Proprietary, 73s 9d, and (new issue) 51s: Colonial Sugar, £42 2s'6d; Fairymetd Sugar, 45s 6d; Howard Smith, 20s &&; James Stedman, 19s 4§d.